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Love your website! You're very talented.

You have a really great site there - if you ever come to Kansai and want to see some truly amazing places (like Nara Dreamland) then please drop me a line!

Great site. I hope to have as many urbex sites taken down one day. I'm stuck on this island, and am going to try to make the best of exploring here, but I miss the skyscrapers back home. If you get the chance visit Houston. Many abandoned buildings to explore.

What an awesome site... Photos are amazing, love the history that you include... It's sad to think that so many places are just left to rot..thank you for sharing your adventures

Hi,

i orderd your book from amazon, its so great i love it!!! unfortunatly my favourite object(norwitch asylum) is not in the book but i love it still.
Hope you see more forbidden places and make a second book!

Greetings from Austria
Fiona

The 4th Annual International DIVERSITY IN PLACE FILM FESTIVAL (DIPFF) returns once again to Honolulu, Hawai`i!

This year, we ask you to submit films on URBAN EXPLORATIONS. Tell us stories about the existing, yet unseen places in or around the urban areas you live/d, visit/ed, encounter/ed. The notion of urban exploration usually entails this sense of off-limits, abandoned, forgotten and neglected places. However, these places, as Josh Clark writes, were once “created with people in mind; they’re constructed to serve some function that benefits us. But [once] abandoned, these sites cease to have any sort of purpose. By gazing upon these structures as art or historical monuments, urban explorers give them a new purpose.”

Hence, our call invites you to leave your “normal” world, venture and wonder through less usual paths. Please share with us your stories of encountering, examining, infiltrating, appropriating the normally unseen or off-limits parts of the urban areas around you. Imagine and image for us what you encounter and what there was once to be seen!

Upcoming deadline: February 1, 2012 –

For submission guidelines and entry fees, please visit www.diversityinplace.org

DIPFF, an intersection between a film festival and a conference, explores the potential applications of film as one of the most ideal formats through which we can understand people’s relations with place and promote awareness and a critical outlook on how we, all of us, experience place so as to have a better understanding of how it works, affects people’s lives and people intervene in its making. Held each April in Honolulu, Hawaii, DIPFF presents a wide variety of films from emerging and professional filmmakers. Different from an usual film festival, it is not only themed, but also hosts a keynote speaker who will give an introductory lecture, and the filmmakers are invited to discuss extensively their work during the Q&A session. Yet, though following this conference format, instead of asking for papers, we call for films and videos as visual essays on the yearly theme.

Contact person: Vera Zambonelli (Founder and Creative Director)

Hi I've beend doing som exploration, but I haven't found anyone near me that is interested in this if you live in mexico send me an email to mago.rep@gmail.com

That's the coolest website about urbex, such an impressive database ! However, you should come and visit Japan, urbex here is quite different, and really interesting. My website is www.haikyo.org if you don't know it already. In Japan, the coolest locations are mines, ghost towns, old clinics and Japanese-style schools They're mostly very peaceful and safe spots to travel to. Thanks for your very informative website

Thanks for exploring the ruins of America, and especially Indiana. I have visited or driven by several of the places pho tographed in Gary. It's nice to see that others appreciate the archetecture of what once was a beautiful city. To break up the stress of our jobs as social workers , myself and a friend have been walking through the ruins of gary. Amoung the risks are crack heads or homeless of which there were both evidence of. Also enjoyed bridges you explored. Keep up the adventure.

marysellavan

Hi, I am looking for people to go for exploration, photography of forbidden, forgotten places, I am living in Belgium, near Luik so if someone whants to come with me please send me a e-mail. Thanks
Love the website!

martidevadder@hotmail.com

THIS IS THE BEST SITE I'VE EVER BEEN ON. JUST SPENT THE WHOLE AFTERNOON ON IT. TOTALLY AWESSOME!

Great site !! Hudson river state hospital best asylum everrrr.

have been documenting and LOOKING for places in Los Angeles, as it is one of the oldest cities on the west coast. please ANYONE that can give me any comprehensive knowledge or information in regards to LA, please let me know.

Fantastic website and stunning photographs. Congratulations on the book I have just published one myself following a year of photographing sites across the isle of man. A selection of photos can be seen at www.mannabandoned.co.uk.

Keep up the good work, I will be in touch if I ever manage to save enough money to travel!

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Absolutrly groovy in the pictorial way!It ain't something you want to write home from should you get launched in one but it sure is a beaut to see that old clam steamer in true beauty.Keep taking those pictures.Signed all 6 of those who share [abstractly]the identity Insane Survivors6.

love to explore
just found ur web site
awesome...

it is incredibly stunning to see your pictures. they show me that even rotten things show their beauty - my favourite pictures are "au theatre 1-4", because they have such an overwhelming expression. creepy but still magnific. how comes, that these lovely kirkbride-buildings were just forgotten and treated as if they haven't existed before? their architecture is complex and everyone of them is a masterpiece. such a waste

you have done a good job!

every time when I go visit a forbidden place in Europe I check your website for more info and this help me 100 % before I go to work there with a photomodel.
I love your wonderful work and it is amazing what you discover on your pad
keep on walking on forbidden ground with your camera
kind regards,
Tejo Fickinger

anyone wanting to see whats left of hellingly hospital i have recently been a few time s i have upped some pictures on youtube check them out . type in hellingly hospital and my pic are at bottom under " henrypug" hope you enjoy i will be checking out the big hous as mention in earlier comment shaun jarrett may 2011

Amazing site. The photographs are beautiful, and the care you take to research the places you explore and the historical information you provide is so wonderful. It shows the enormous amount of respect you have for these derelict beauties that time has forgotten. Thank you for sharing your work.

Hey!
This is a very good site. Very nice pictures, WOW!

My sister and I are trying to find out about a small town in Indiana called Cudahay. We went to Cline Ave. school, then to Ivanhoe. We went to Edison for a short time. We have fond memories of the close knit town. I believe it was sold
in order to make way for a tollroad. We have both searched but have not found anything, until now. I noticed someone
posted something about the "bump" on the bridge to Cudahay! I remember the bridge and Cline Ave school was just
accross from the bridge. It was an old house used for a school. If anyone knows, please post!! thank you!!!

This is some really cool stuff. I have posted a link to your site. After I have had time to explore it, I'll post a review. Meanwhile, keep up the good work. I'd like to do some exploring myself. Maybe I can find something local.

I learned about it as i was touring Dresden.A German Photographer and i became aquainted who was familar with the Sanitorium.well to say the least, i will say, my life has not been the same, visually-conceptually, photographicly . ..while i was there in the sanitorium, the sents/odor offered me a ghetto-like familiarity.My fotos are my interpretation,however limited in time.thank you,Charles

Just stumbled upon your site whilst looking for Spanish urbex locations - I'm emigrating next month. Just felt I had to say thanks for sharing your awesome photos and quality write-ups. Excellent site, I can't believe I haven't found it before...Happy exploring

Great website. Keep up the good work. Some amazing photography here. Simply beautiful.

i am looking for the woman sara rose that posted an article on this site about our lady of the highlands my name is linda calvert and i agree with her r castle should still be standing. we r on facebook

I, too, had some great times living and growing up in Gary. I lived in Glen Park and went to Glen Park Elementary School on 39th and Broadway. I loved reading the posts from PJ and others, talking of the Beauty Spot, the bakery, and Harvey's, where we often for quick shopping. I got my first Barbie at Harvey's. My dad worked at Inland Steel, and from that sent 7 children to college and some to grad school. I loved walking everywhere, feeling safe, and enjoying the mixtures of different cultures of European nationalites. I lived on Jackson Street, the 40th block, for seveal years, then to 44th Avenue and attended one year at Riley, with a fantastic teacher, Ralph Gonzalez, whom I stayed in touch with throughout college. Any Glen Park students out there.. now around 50 years old? I loved that place, and it tears my heart to see my old neighborhoods in such devastation, when they were truly manicured and well maintained. I thank Gary for providing my Dad with a good job, and for providing us with a good and friendly neighborhood. We moved away in 1973, as I remember my father saying he was afraid the city was on the verge of beginning decline, and he was offered a job an a new company opening in New Madrid, Missouri. We moved away, but I treasure every second of my time in Gary.

thanks for sharing all this fasinating photos~ive been looking for these recently and they are gorgeous and impressive(help alot when im out of inspiration~
you make my day all the time~ ~ hope its ok to place the link of this website in my blog~=P

I LOVE THIS WEBSITE!It's has everything I ever wanted to see!I love to watch places like those hospitals etc...Thank you so much for these pictures!

In a search of abandoned places in my area google linked me to this site. Really amazing how many places you visited, and, not to forget beautiful pictures. I just can't stop to look

I stumbled across this site. Thank you for showing others how we the tax paying citizen have been force to live. I was born and raised in Gary, have been here for 54 years. Everything I saw and read is so true. I myself can't leave just yet because of my job and retirement. When that time comes I too will be leaving. I have been here to long-living in these conditions. I don't think I will ever see Gary the was it was when I was a child. So sad.

Hey, just stumbled across this link today. Looks like a great mine.

www.interactivearchitecture.net

Hey all...

We will be in Paris again in March 2011 and we are eager to meet up with some Parisian locals for a Urbex/subterainian style tour of Paris.
We are members of a UK/European Urbex forum (talkurbex.com) and would really enjoy a Parisian Urbex adventure uniting common curiosity for thing behind locked doors.
Email:
dynamicphotographic@googlemail.com

...great pics! I've been doing a bit of exploring around Paris, but still baby steps.

Is this the place that was a hospital during The Battle of the Bulge, World War ll? If so my father was a US Army physician here. Please let me know, if someone still knows..

Hi,

Excellent! Great! You're maybe the only ones I cn share with the following experience: A few years ago, I crossed a city in full confusion: the promoters(developers) transformed this old health resort into an insipid place. My glance was attracted by a pretty villa of the 19th century and suddenly, I was invaded by a deep sadness and my eyes misted of tears. I saw then the panel which announced the next demolition of this house.
The pain which I felt was the one of this house, a home which irradiated the happiness and protected those disappeared that it had to shelter.

By looking at your magnificent photos, I have the same feeling. Thanks for sharing!

All the best

Michelle

Probably your best pictures yet Sylvain.
Those of us unable to undertsake the adventure ourselves are taken there via your photographs.
Thank you.
Warmest wishes,

Anne x

A great 10,000 acre site on public land. Miles of underground!

Check out gnal.insidious-cunning.com for pictures, maps and history!

We have visited Norwich, Mansfield, Fairfield Hills, Seaside Sanitarium , Connecticut Valley Hospital and Wingdale in New York. Does anyone have any info on the location of "Connecticut Training School for Feebleminded at Lakeville" in Connecticut.
BCM58@AOL.COM Brian

This place is actually very haunted . So many people died there and i used to work there . It would still be in operation if it wasnt for john rowland . Now the patients just walk and live on our streets in norwich and some still live in those buildings cause thats all they know as home. I realy feel sry for these people . They should clean it up and u it as a tourest attraction for people interested . But any questions i can help u with feel free to email me at dbocese@gmail.com

I've just finished watching and reading your entire website and enjoyed all your posts, even the one star rated. Thank you!!!

Hi

Just to say that it's rather offensive to me that you use the English St.George flag to highlight the UK. As i'm sure you're aware, 4 countries make up the UK, and the combined flag is the Union Jack. Personally I think it would look better with the Welsh dragon in the middle, but that's another debate!

Other than that, love the photography

John

I was born and raised in Gary. Attended Froebel High School 1951 Grad. I have fond memories of Gary and still have relatives living in Gary. It was a beautiful place to grow up in and I have so many good memories. I left Gary and went to College and then enlisted in the Air Force and retired. I think the decline of Gary started with the steel industry going down the drain. Cheaper steel from overseas. We all know the city was built for one reason the steel industry. I never lived in Gary after I left, but visited family members regular. I will always remember my last basketball game. We lost to Lafayette Jeff by one point in the regional, we had a 25 and 1 record. Some of my team mates, Vladamir Gastavich. John More. Koval, Walter Asberry, Gene Nickles. Coach Kyle, Coach Maddox to name a few.

hi, this is a great website!!
everytime when i watch it or show it to a friend, we are astonished !

i wanted to ask you where u get these pictures from?
do u really visited all these countrys and bulidings?

if its so.. and you want to visit germany anytime.. than you may visit "Illenau" ?
-> www.illenauer-waldfriedhof.de/html/bilder.html its a very creepy place, they say there are ghosts on the cemetery and in the building behind the cemetery.. they brought people there to have a "euthanasie - a nice death" they had gaschambers and some f*** up stuff like that

my friends and me saw it incedentally and were amazed about this big building, so we googeled it ..

maybe your're interessted in this too, its near France (strasbourg)

Sry 4 my bad english :/ greetz from germany

WOW! I grew up there from 1967-1980 when all the whites bolted outa Gary! We moved to Chesterton and I no alot of my friends moved to Portage and other surronfing towns! Im absolutly speechless over your Photos! I think its shock! I lived in Aetba a small suburb in Gary ..Miller? Theres nothing left at all of my home I grew up in as a child! Its a Slab of concrete and weeds! Ty for sharing those photos! I was looking at them and next thing I knew I was crying! Its just like Life After People! I will never be able to get those images out of my head! Ty so much for reminding me exactly where I Came From!!!! God Bless You! Kathy Lyman-Moser

HI i worked at Hudson River for 20 years and yes its haunted. You can also get in to the tunnels from the main building they are all over the grounds. They go under route 9 to the river what hudson river use to own called the boat house the employees use to go there for lunch or just to enjoy their selfs.

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My family history starts in Gary. My mother's parents came to Gary from Czechoslovakia when she was two. My Grandfather worked for Armor. My father's family came to Gary before he was born. His father also worked for Armor. My mom's house was on the "states" side of Broadway in Glen Park (Louisiana Street). My father's was on the "presidents" side (Van Buren). They both went to Lew Wallace, got married, moved to Miller and then eventually back to Glen Park. We lived at 40th and Ohio. My brothers and sisters and I all went to Riley, then Bailey then Lew Wallace (except me -- we moved out of Gary before I was in high school).

I remember ALWAYS feeling safe in the world of Gary. My mom would walk us to Broadway and we'd take the bus downtown to Sears. I remember the candy counters at the dowtown Sears store. We'd ride our bikes to Scarsdale pharmacy, the Glen Park Library on Broadway, The Glenn... and on weekends my parents took us to the Beauty Spot (on Broadway) and sometimes -- special occasions -- to San Remos. We'd play at the amusement parks at the Y&W and Kiddie Land, and go to jack Spratz ice cream parlor in miller after having Chinese at Ming Ling.

I remember riding my bike all over gary at as early an age as 5. Only once did I ever get scared when some other neighborhood of kids tried to hijack my bike. Other than that, I'd ride as far west as The Village shopping center and as far east as as the lake villiage.

The 38th street pool and ball park was where we spent our entire summers.

Will never again have a cake as good as the one's that came from the Glen Park Bakery.

Just wishing luck to all urban explorers.

I was born in Gary, Indiana in 1950. My father, was in the Coast Guard and he met my mother in New York during World War II. I had two brothers, Wayne and Mark.

It pleases me to see people remember Gary fondly. Unfortunately, the memories remain. The city doesn't.

In 1964, I starred in West Side Story at Andrean High School. I starred opposite Lois Bogee and the play was a hit and a miss. It was a hit because so many people - Father McKinnon got men to sing who had never sung before. Unfortunately, because Lois was black the city was in an uproar. Imagine! A white boy kissing a black girl! But wasn't that the point of West Side Story?

I will be contacting those of you who have refreshed my memories of my boyhood town. I have nearly completed a a three pronged book that deals with my boyhood in Gary, my education in Fort Worth and my maturation in NYC.

My fondest memories were: Gleason Park Golf (both courses), Slushes at the Dairy Queen, Marquette Park and Oscar Hammond and the ??? playing loud, arrogant rock and roll that the girls danced to and the boys watched and smoked. I remember (seriously) making out at the Dunes theater, Tivoli Tap, my dad's bar The Silver Grill, Andrean High School and much, much more.

For those of you interested. My brother Wayne died at his own hand many years ago. To those of you who remembered him I would appreciate a note.

I'll post more often now that this unique site has been made available to ex-pats like me. Bye Gary. I knew thee well.

I was born in Gary, Indiana in 1950. My father, was in the Coast Guard and he met my mother in New York during World War II. I had two brothers, Wayne and Mark.

It pleases me to see people remember Gary fondly. Unfortunately, the memories remain. The city doesn't.

In 1964, I starred in West Side Story at Andrean High School. I starred opposite Lois Bogee and the play was a hit and a miss. It was a hit because so many people - Father McKinnon got men to sing who had never sung before. Unfortunately, because Lois was black the city was in an uproar. Imagine! A white boy kissing a black girl! But wasn't that the point of West Side Story?

I will be contacting those of you who have refreshed my memories of my boyhood town. I have nearly completed a a three pronged book that deals with my boyhood in Gary, my education in Fort Worth and my maturation in NYC.

My fondest memories were: Gleason Park Golf (both courses), Slushes at the Dairy Queen, Marquette Park and Oscar Hammond and the ??? playing loud, arrogant rock and roll that the girls danced to and the boys watched and smoked. I remember (seriously) making out at the Dunes theater, Tivoli Tap, my dad's bar The Silver Grill, Andrean High School and much, much more.

For those of you interested. My brother Wayne died at his own hand many years ago. To those of you who remembered him I would appreciate a note.

I'll post more often now that this unique site has been made available to ex-pats like me. Bye Gary. I knew thee well.

I grew up in the shadows of Gary in Hobart and East Gary, now known as Lake Station. Iremember going to athletic meets in Gary, shopping at Goldblattes at Christmas with my grandmother, Miller beach and Marquette Park. I moved away in 1980 and moved back to South Bend in 1997. , and back to Texas in 2003. Now I am moving back to Vlparaiso. Every time Gary has drawn me back. I think that at one time it was a beautiful city. Now it is just memories. I have friends that Gary Fireman, my grandfather and Dad both retired from USS.
It's just funny how when ever I go back to Indiana, Gary is a top priority to see for me. I guess it will never leave me.

I was born in Gary in 43' At age 5 moved to Creston Iowa, then came back in 58' to attend my senior yr at Lew Wallace (graduated in 61') Does anyone remember the Dick DeWayne Combo? The Hitch Hikers? I was the drummer of both groups. Remember The Redwood Lounge? We playd there for a few yrs too. I love this site. Remember Lido's Drive-In resturant on 51st right east of Broadway? My Uncle owned the place, so I ended up bein the cook Made lot of friends there. Still tryin to figure out the name of the drive-in resturant in Miller We drag raced are cars there on weekends til the cops showed up! It was right before the Y where 12 & 20 seperated Anyone can e-mail me at: JetBlueMusic@aol.com ........... Thanks

Totally awesome new pictures Great colors, and a very awesome location. Would love to explore it myself...

Very nice pictures !
I doesn't know that there are so many abandoned buildings in the world
I will recommend this page

I have been searching for abandoned photographs that have soul and feeling...you have managed to capture both! No one seems to understand my fascination with these pictures or why I plan to hang them in my home...must be my Nordic heritage and attraction to all things modern or different. I am so happy that I found this website. I will most certainly be ordering photographs from you.

Very impressive and fascinating photographs. I will revisit your site soon.

I was born in Puerto Rico but I grew up in Gary in the 1950's and 1960's. I have the fondest memories of my living there. I attended Holy Trinity School and then Froebel School and lived on 11th and Jackson. Everyone was kind and alwasys spoke to each other. My mother worked in Chicago so the commute took it's toll on her and we moved to Chicago so that she could be closer to her job. I remember riding the South Shore Train and my Godfather would pick me up from the train station on Broadway. All my friends are now in living in different locations, but those of us who stay in touch reminisce about the good times we had while growing up there. It is sad to see the pictures of all the buildings especially the ones of Methodist Church. It was a beautiful church in it's day. I did enjoy seeing the video on Youtube because that was a video of a city that was alive. Thank you so much for the memories!

In 1990 or so, there was an old, ornate theater along Sheridan Road in Chicago that was going to be demolished and I went in and photographed the insides, a construction worker let me in. It is almost indescribable how beautiful it was in its decay. Your photos somehow capture the grandure of these old buildings in a way that is so bitter sweet. Thank you for your work and your love of these old buildings. Just beautiful.

I GREW UP BY SOME OF YOU... 44TH AND GEORGIA... RILEY, BAILLY AND LEW WALLACE 1973... DAD TAUGHT IN THE GARY SCHOOL SYSTEM... REMEMBER TIGER THE UMP ON THE LITTLE LEAGUE FIELDS? GREAT MEMORIES... THEY WILL NEVER DIE... LIKE GARY DID!

Nice shots i liked all
I suggest to go near Milan to the old "innocenti" car factory, u can find an interesting old factory.
Thank you for your nice amazing work.

Greetings from the wasteland of Oregon. We have been infiltrating abandoned sites here for almost 10 years now. Recently, we've utilized many of these locations - with owner permission, to film our pilot web series, "Lady Wasteland". It's a post-apocalyptic story about a woman searching for the six killers who murdered her best friend. Currently, we're prepping to relaunch the series with 10 new episodes. Please feel free to check out the site and let us know what you think.

www.ladywasteland.com

Also, if you come across any abandoned locations here in Oregon... please let us know.

Thanks,

Wasteland Films LLC

Good day, I represent the Festival of Youth Culture "Necrourbanism", which will be held in St. Petersburg (Russia) this summer.
The festival will be dedicated the Urban Exploration, and it will take place in unrestored shops former knitting factory "Red Flag", becouse industrial building are suitable event atmosphere, and the factory architectural complex is a unique masterpiece avant-garde architecture of the 20th century.

Festival support the Goethe-Institute and
The State Museum of Urban Sculpture (St. Petersburg)

We would like to present at this festival of photographers from this site.
For example, www.forbidden-places.net
Can somebody help me contact them? Please, answer to ru.carpediem@gmail.com

Best regards, Margo.

Wonderful!
So .... inspiring!

hi people im in charge of knocking down hellingly asylum and if people would like to look around i can show you rather than you sneak in after dark as some of the floors are rotten and missing with 5 meter drops which u cant see and can kill just email me at p3terjohn@hotmail.com and we will sort some think out

im doing a world tour of things i should do before i die. id appreciate some advice and support from any one willing to lend any.

my email is enpire@live.com

if any one copuld reccomend the most amazing places taht have to be seen and have plots orr scematics that would be most impressive.. also anyone know anything about the tokyo undergound>??

Personaly tried to get in the other day, but was collared by security. If anyone can tell me the easiest way to get in without being seen let me know. Do not want to come face to face with the dogs there.

Excellent, interesting and exceptional photographs it is worthwhile spending places here more of time.. Willingly I will peek and I will recommend this side at myself.

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I love seeing that at some points in history people actually gave a crap how architecture looked. It pains me to see some of these places fade into oblivion. Why is it that buildings today can't be functional AND pleasing to the eye? Thank you for documenting some epic locations.

Hi, for a week now, since I've found this site, I'm totally fascinated about your photos and the whole project. This is amazing, I love the beauty of these wonderful places. It's like diving into another time... As I was a child, I wanted to go into the ruin of an old mill in Germany near my home town, it's called Hildebrandsche Muehle in Weinheim. Here you can take a look at it, and this is what I can find for information. A crazy story: there is a lot of trouble in town because of the idea to establish a bo*rd*ell*o in a side building of it... Could this mill be of interest to you?
Ah, and I want to say Thank You for sharing all your wonderful art photography with us!!

I was fascinated by Gary Indiana. Can it be creepier than Detroit? Keep up the great photography.
Cheers

Excellent and fascinating website.
Best compliments for sharing with the visitors the splendid result of your huge work.
Renato Gaudio

Awesome website with excellent photos. Keep going on!

Really beautiful, artistic site. So well done!

I have a site for upstate NY in the US at oabonny.com covering old abandoned buildings in the area.

This site is very fantastic. I love decayed locations.The book is certainly great and very interesting.I would be happy to just watch it all myself, but I haven´t enough time.

You know this web site is soooo freekin cool! I love abandoned things, they're amasing!!! But, there is not one thing for canada!!! Why not? I know of atleast, like.... 5 abandoned places off by heart. But, anyways, yeah. cool site, more canada needed.

hi and hello everyone,

this is a very nice website ...congaratulations. so many "forbidden places" around the world...great.
if you like to see more about - Beelitz Heilstaetten/Germany and Heilstaetten Grabowsee - pls visit my homepage.

thx to all visitors

bw
ralf

I from Moscow. Your Moscow colleague. I very much liked your site. We, the Moscow underground researchers, have too a resource http://diggers.su and the basic forum http://diggers.su/forum

Hello everyone.....I was looking at the pictures today and reading your comments. It took me on a walk down memory lane. My heart is sick seeing the beautiful Palace Theater. Wow, it was so beautiful and I took would take the bus to the theater or out to Miller Beach when I was 10.
I am from Brunswick like some of you. And I lived on 11th and Porter. I remember playing hide and seek and kick the can. And yes being free to run and play even in the evening. The world is no longer a safe place for children.
Very fond memories of Gary, Ivanhoe Elementary and Edison High School
God Bless, Kathy

Oh my god is all I can say! I wish so much to have the chance to be able to explore any part of this.

I am from Chicago, USA and will be in Paris from now until September 7th.

Is there any way you could put me in contact with someone to go down with or tell me some tips if its possible to do it myself? (And safe of course) I know people have trashed some areas and some people get upset with this. I understand. I would go down on a trash clean up expedition if this would be good? Let me know? I am excited by the fact of these tunnels existance!

Thank you so much.

Mark

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Very interesting site, great pics, love the prison ones!

I really liked it. But not bad, it would be to add a few important sections.

Great site!
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Hi there captain,I hope you're well today.Where's the Boortmeerbeek Maltery in Antwerp?Is it still there or has it been demolished?All I know at this moment in time is there's a small railway station within 200m of the site.Once again we find ourselves raising a glass to all the dereliction in Belgium that feeds our passion...........................................JUST NICE!!!!Go steady fellow urbexing dudes.........................................OVER AND OUT!!!!

nice site mate !!!

you now la crypte @ Belgium (Brussel)
if you wanne go thear i have the location for you .

i khan give you tis information when you mail me

grtz btw you have my mail ha ! and sorry for my english its so bat !

nice site my friend

love all the effort youve gone to

the photography is amazing

the adventures even better

keep it goin !

i was born in gary @ a methodist hospital 7 28 1957
my great grandma whalen lived there addie bell whalen
when i was little i always remember hearing a train go by
i was little but it must have been nice, because i had the greatest great grandma in the whole
world i know michael jackson was born i gary too i wonder if @ same hospital
aug 29 1958

a nice site - do not forget to do chateaux noisy... really worth a visit - and you should hurry..

will follow some of your explorations in Belgium.

thanks for the nice experience - took me about an hour this site. if you are sharing locations - i would be interested.

kind regards

jurgen van den bossche

Nice site but when you list all the places you have United Kingdom and then an England flag above it, there are three other countries in the UK: Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

I am a photograph collector in San Francisco with an 8 3/4" x 6 3/4" image of firemen, "State Hospital" ladder wagon, hose reels, a ladder going to the top floor, and water being poured into a fourth-floor window. Tha architecture matches the photo at the top of your website.

Does anyone have any pre-1900 photos of San Francisco to trade? I also like Daguerreotype photos.

Peter

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Almost beautiful pictures and stories - I really enjoyed exploring your side! I will come back and look for new adventures
Thank you for this..i will keep it in mind..

Regards from a German Urban Explorer
Anna

I absolutely adore this site, and I find the topic deeply fascinating. If you ever get the chance, make a point to visit Salton Sea in Southern California- it's a true Piece de resistance!

I LOVE your website...I will definitely be a frequent visitor. I am completely fascinated by these sorts of images. I am amazed at some of the photos you were able to get! Great job and thanks!

I lived in Gary and left for the military as soon as I could. I have tons of family in Gary and the only reason I go back is to visit family. I never knew anything good of Gary except family, food, and Dana M. Davis. So much pain so many horrible memories. Oneday I would love to see Gary become a fraction of what it once was. But with so many murders and desertions whose going to change it?

I used to patrol BlackOak and Gary in early 80 s.The crime was bad and so were the politicians.I remember one night two Gary cops were responding to a call and there car had no floorboard.Thanks Richard Hatcher.
Professor Lanes biik is a goldmine

I commend you on this extraordinary site. Your photo composition hints at professional avocation. If your photo skills are self taught they are indeed praisworthy!. As a "retired" UrbEx I have thouroughly enjoyed visiting and will return often. Thank you.

Notre premier amour reste dans nos coeurs pour toujours. Nous pouvons rêver de nouveau en regardant de jeunes amants. Vivant et l'amour depuis longtemps, mon ami.